Fusarium graminearum

Host(s)

Wheat

Disease name

Head blight

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Description

Gibberella zeae, also known by Fusarium graminearum is one of the causal agents of the wheat head blight disease. This devastating pathogen and other head blight causes important losses in crops worldwide. The genome sequence, assembly and protein coding genes annotation of the Gibberella zeae (PH-1) genome have been generated by the Broad Institute as part of their work on the Fusarium Comparative Sequencing Project.

Browse this genome in the Ensembl Genomes website.

Phylogeny

Kindgom: 
Fungi
Phylum: 
Ascomycota
Order: 
Hypocreales

Stats

Genome size: 
36.56Mb
Number of genes: 
13317

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